Showing posts with label Supreme Court Nominee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Supreme Court Nominee. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Why Kagan Worries Me




Supreme Court nominees are subject to a healthy portion of scrutiny and well they should be. The Supreme Court decides on the toughest most important cases in the country. They are the final legal word. The trust we as American citizen put in them is almost sacred. Because I believe in the ideals of the United States of America and the principles that our founding fathers set forth to govern this great country I am greatly concerned by the appointment of any Supreme Court nominee.

I am deeply concerned by the nomination of Elena Kagan for Supreme Court Justice by President Obama. Here are four reasons why:

#1. She is an Obama appointee. His choices have not been good so far and his approval rating illustrates his disconnect with the rest of the country.

#2. She is a liberal and not just an average liberal but a liberal from the ivory towers of academia.

#3. The Obama administration is carefully showing the public only what they want the public to see about Elena Kagan’s history of thought which would give us a better understanding of what her liberal ideals look like politically. Y.ou only hide what you don't want seen.

#4. What’s behind the curtain? Senator Tom Daschle advised then Senator Obama to run for president in 2008 because if he (Obama) waited until 2012 his record of voting would be too well documented. That is deception, that is dishonest. Now, President Obama is doing the same thing with information about Elena Kagan. What don’t they want the American public to know about Elena Kagan?

That’s what I say, what do you say?


Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Just Say No


It is an interesting coincidence that the nominee for the soon to be vacated Supreme Court Justice position has a rather small record. Was it Tom Daschle who told then Senator Obama to run for President before he had a record of voting tendencies?  So, how does President Obama approach his selection of a Supreme Court Justice nominee? He gives us someone with little judicial experience, a background in the extremely liberal soil of academia, and in the small sample we have of her choices are a bit (ok, maybe a gigabyte) left of Middle America. Elena Kagan, current solicitor general is an ideal candidate for Supreme Court Justice in the eyes of President Obama.

President Obama had said that it was very important that his choice for Supreme Court Justice would take into account women’s rights, yet rejected an idea of a litmus test, and believes that women should have the right to make often difficult decisions about their own bodies and issues of reproduction, however…no litmus test?

I am not surprised. Pissed off, but unfortunately not surprised. America drank the cool called change and now we are paying for it and will pay for it for years to come.

Dear congress: Just Say No
Thus saith me.